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  Who Moved My Cheese?

  An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

  by Spencer Johnson M.D.

  From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.
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  The Definitive Book of Body Language

  by Allan Pease

  Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give you confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter–from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner. It is a scientific fact that people’s gestures give away their true intentions. Yet most of us don’t know how to read body... (more)
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  Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better

  by Gina Trapani

  Whether you?re a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource. You?ll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling with your computer. You?ll learn valuable ways to upgrade your life so that you can work?and live?more efficiently, such as: empty your e-mail inbox,... (more)
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  A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

  by J. Kevin Sheehan

  A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)
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  Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

  by Abraham, Wayne W. Dyer, Esther Hicks

  Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you’re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you’ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space... (more)
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  Better

  by Atul Gawande

  The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession  The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the... (more)
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  Home Renovation

  by Frank Ching

  Clever ideas fill this guide that explains and illustrates how to transform any home into a more functional, comfortable, and pleasing environment. Readers will learn how to improve existing space through use of light, color, door, and window modifications, wall rearrangements, and furnishings.
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  Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day

  by Gina Trapani

  Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" -- clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task -- in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching lifehacker principle, then segues into several concrete applications.... (more)
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  Strengths Finder 2.0: A New & Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

  by Tom Rath

  DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your... (more)
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  You: The Owner's Manual

  by Gary Hallgren, Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet Oz, Mehmet C. Oz

  Between your full-length mirror and high-school biology class, you probably think you know a lot about the human body. While it's true that we live in an age when we're as obsessed with our bodies as we are with celebrity hairstyles, the reality is that most of us know very little about what chugs, churns, and thumps throughout this miraculous, scientific, and artistic system of anatomy. Yes, you've owned your... (more)
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  Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization

  by David Coghlan

  `A complete and well rounded approach to the subject' - Action Learning: Research and Practice `This book, like the first edition, is indispensable reading for students however; the second edition will also be ably support established academics who may be seeking an entry-point for action research in their own organizations' - Ontario Action Research Network Doing Action Research in Your Own... (more)
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  The Four-Hour Work Week

  Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

  by Timothy Ferriss

  What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer: “I race motorcycles in Europe.” “I ski in the Andes.” “I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life... (more)
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  Ultimate Guide to Home Repair & Improvement

  by Editors of Creative Homeowner

  Creative Homeowner's Ultimate Guide to Home Repair & Improvement is the largest, most comprehensive home-improvement book on the market-608 pages packed with over 3,300 photos and illustrations. This clearly written, sensible how-to book covers the home top to bottom, inside and out. The reader will find out about common repairs step-by-step, including wiring and electricity, plumbing, floors and stairs,... (more)
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  The Memory Jogger II

  by Michael Brassard, Diane Ritter

  The Memory Jogger II is an easy-to-use pocket guide that describes tools to help you make continuous improvements in an organization. The tools help people at all levels participate in identifying and solving problems; eliminating rework; streamlining processes; improving cross-functional communication; decreasing costs; and measuring results. The guide supports organization-wide consistency and participation in... (more)
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  New Manufacturing Challenge: Techniques for Continuous Improvement

  by Kiyoshi Suzaki

  As a consultant, Kiyoshi Suzaki has helped scores of Fortune 500 clients improve manufacturing operations and get the job done faster, cheaper, better, and safer. Now, in this detailed "operating manual" -- full of more step-by-step applications than any other book available -- Suzaki spells out new options in production and employee resources that can help American industry regain the cutting edge in price,... (more)
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  Intentional Healing: A Guide to the Mind/Body Healing System

  by Elliott S. Dacher

  A practicing physician shows exactly how to use current thinkinkg on the mind-body connection to improve one's health. In 18 easy-to-follow exercises that use imagery, meditation, and biofeedback, Dr. Dacher shows how to maintain the health of various systems of the body. "I highly recommend this book."--Deepak Chopra.
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  A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium

  by Robert D. Friedel

  Finalist, 2008 Henry Paolucci / Walter Bagehot Book Award given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement—the deep-rooted belief that things could... (more)
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  The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step Revised Book of Home Repair and Improvement

  by James A. Hufnagel

  From the most trusted, authoritative, and experienced name in the do-it-yourself field, here is the clearest, most completely illustrated, and most up-to-date reference. If you plan to do things right, this book is the essential resource. The Stanley Complete Step-by-Step Book of Home Repair and Improvement * More than 2,000 clear, accurate full-color illustrations * "Doer-friendly" instructions... (more)
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  The Complete Travel Detective Bible: The Consummate Insider Tells You What You Need to Know in an Increasingly Complex World!

  by Peter Greenberg

  This ultimate "physician’s desk reference" for travelers addresses the questions, anxieties, concerns, and desire for essential information that are common to seasoned and novice travelers alike.      Peter Greenberg, best-selling author, trusted Today show travel editor, and the man that writer Paul Theroux calls "the liberator and defender of the traveling public," offers an encyclopedic look at every aspect... (more)
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  The Wall Street Journal. Complete Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect Yourself from the Most Pervasive Crime in America (Wall Street Journal Identity Theft Guidebook: How to Protect)

  by Terri Cullen

  It could happen when you make a routine withdrawal from an ATM, respond to an e-mail asking for information about an online account, or leave a new box of checks unattended in your mailbox. Identity theft is one of the easiest crimes to commit in America—and one of the hardest to prosecute. As thieves become increasingly clever, Americans have more reasons than ever to fear this elusive, ubiquitous crime. Now... (more)